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Our Team
Group-IB’s team comprises top industry talents. We investigate the most sophisticated cybercrimes all over the world and create products designed to protect against them.
550+
employees
70%
technical specialists
29
median age of employees
60+
countries where Group-IB products are used
Ilya Sachkov
Founder of Group-IB
In 2003, Ilya founded Group-IB — one of the global leaders in preventing and investigating cybercrime.
Ilya is one of the 26 prominent independent commissioners for the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace, a member of cybercrime expert committees in the Council of Europe. He is a Member of Young President Organisation (YPO) — global network of young chief executives. He takes part in the work of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for Cybersecurity.
In 2010, Ilya became the first Russian national to win the Digital Crimes Consortium award for his contribution to international exchange of experience in the field of computer forensics.
In 2015-2017, Ilya was awarded the EY Entrepreneur of the Year National Award three times in a row in the «Information Security for Business» category.
In 2016, he was featured in the global list of Forbes 30 Under 30 among the brightest young businessmen in «Enterprise Tech» category, where Mark Zuckerberg was ranked first in 2011.
Since 2017, he is an associate professor of the Bauman Technical University at the Department of Information Security, the department he graduated with honors in 2009.
In 2018, Ilya made it to the Russian Reporter and Russia Beyond the Headlines prominent people of the year lists.
In 2019, Ilya was listed among the top 100 young economic leaders by the French «Institut Choiseul.» In 2020, he made it to the ranking for the second consecutive year.
Sachkov has participated as a speaker in such world-renowned events and conferences as INTERPOL World, WEF Cybersecurity in Davos, BRICS ministerial meeting, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, and etc.
Sachkov is also known as a philanthropist, engaged in charity work, reading lectures on cybersecurity for students and supporting young talents in the musical industry. Over the past several years, Sachkov has become an ambassador of several brands, including Parmigiani Fleurier, the Swiss watchmaker.
Countries need to sign a moratorium on the proliferation and creation of cyber weapons for military purposes or espionage. Smart countries understand computer crime slows down economic development.
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The cybercriminal world today represents a well-structured business that has as many, if not more, roles as any other field
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Without incident response and forensics capabilities, you will never understand what’s really going on ... It’s only through incident response that you will get the necessary technical indicators and understand the kill chain. This information can then be fed to your threat intelligence structure.
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The biggest problem awaiting us in the near future is the emergence of cyber terrorists, who are not interested in financial attacks. They want to attack critical infrastructure. And they are using the exact same tools that organized crime has used.
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The global pandemic that locked people worldwide inside their houses and made their devices the only link to the outside world became a golden opportunity for cybercriminals. They saw their victims increase time spent online while at the same time get rid of control of corporate cybersecurity solutions and experts.
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Everyone knows that never any information was leaked from us and was not used in the politics, we have a level of trust. We did not lose any client in the United States or in the Great Britain, in Europe we are even growing.
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Lack of administrative barriers, tax incentives, a favourable investment climate and a strategy for creating a vibrant cybersecurity ecosystem — these are just some of the reasons why we at Group-IB have chosen Singapore as a platform for our international business development.
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Dmitry Volkov
CEO and Сo-founder of Group-IB
In 2003, as a first-year student at Russia’s leading engineering university the Moscow State Technical University of N.E. Bauman, Dmitry co-founded Group-IB, a cyber investigations startup back then. Seventeen years on the company has evolved into one of the cybersecurity leaders known for its engineering innovations. Group-IB now protects banks, industrial enterprises, eCommerce giants in more than 60 countries around the world and offers solutions in Threat and Fraud Hunting, Threat Intelligence, Digital Risk Protection categories. The company’s services, however, continue to play an important role feeding Group-IB Threat Hunting ecosystem, distributed across Singapore, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hanoi, Moscow, Bahrain and other locations, with unique battlefield cyberthreat intel.
Dmitry is the mastermind behind most of Group-IB’s products. From day one, he has been a prominent voice leading Group-IB toward becoming the go-to expert in threat hunting and intelligence. His team successfully conducted the first and later on the most complicated cyber investigations and DFIR engagements. They have helped identify and track most notorious threat actors, including Cobalt, Silence, MoneyTaker, Lazarus, etc.
The threat actor-centric approach formed the basis of Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence – the vascular system of all Group-IB’s products and solutions and a brainchild of Dmitry Volkov. He served as Group-IB’s CTO between 2017 and 2021.
Mr. Volkov is a recognized visionary leader. In 2015, he was listed by Business Insider as one of the top 7 professionals behind influential security companies. The forecasts made by Dmitry every year in his Hi-Tech Crime Trends report proved to be reliable. They serve as a valuable source of cyber threat insights for cybersecurity teams worldwide.
Dmitry is a great believer in the idea of engineering neutrality and advocate of cyber weapon non-proliferation. In 2013, Dmitry Volkov became a member of the UN Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert Group aimed at conducting a comprehensive study on the problem of global cybercrime. Since 2016 he is a member of the Europol EC3 Advisory Group on Internet Security.
He is a regular speaker at industry’s major events, such as INTERPOL World, CounterMeasure, CyberCrimeCon and many others. Dmitry is a husband and a proud father of two.
Instead, an organization’s cybersecurity should be based on a proactive approach. All the threats targeting an organization are detected at the preparation stage. Modern cybersecurity solutions should not only carry out dynamic and static analysis of potentially malicious files, but also counteract a number of techniques that threat actors use to detect the threat analysis environment and bypass threat detection technologies.
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There are millions of indicators like hashes, IPs, certificates. They are the dots, they themselves do not bring you much value, while connecting those dots and attributing them to a specific threat actor is paramount. It gives you a bigger picture and understanding of the depth of the attacks and adversaries’ further intent, based on historical data. Since the very beginning, we have been observing different threat actors and how they bring down some of the highly robust IT infrastructures, which has enabled us to progressively learn, develop an excellent understanding of their behaviour, tools, techniques and practices and formulate security prerequisites needed for resilient and effective cyber defence.
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...the MoneyTaker group broke into 20 systems, which includes 15 U.S. lenders, targeting ATMs with “mules” and Russia`s interbank monet-transfer system, Group-IB said in a report provided to Bloomberg. Criminals have changed tactics and are now focusing on banks rather than their clients, as was standard operating procedure in the past.
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Nicholas Palmer
Head of Global Sales
Born and raised in a small city of Halifax, Canada, Nick Palmer grew up with a strong passion for technologies and intolerance to injustice. The mix of both and love of his life fuelled him to drop a successful career in the telecom sector in Canada to fly over the Atlantic Ocean to join the hunt for cybercriminals at Group-IB in 2014.
Nick is no stranger to challenges, in fact, he thrives on them. Few know that Nick joined Group-IB as an English teacher without much knowledge in cybersecurity but found his way to become one of Group-IB's best assets over the years. Nick, driven by his inborn passion for IT and appetite to change the game, has progressed through the company from a key account manager to become Head of Group-IB's Global Business with teams reporting to him spanning Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Spain, South Africa, Italy, UAE, the UK, and the Netherlands.
Nick became the first person to reach $1 million internationally in the company within just his first year at Group-IB's business development team. Group-IB's unique ecosystem which fosters internal entrepreneurship is an integral part the company's DNA and Nick is a case in point. The company's international revenues continue to grow exponentially year over year under Nick's guidance and so does his team' geographical presence.
He is a regular speaker at industry's major events like RSA, INTERPOL World FS-ISAO summits, CyberCrimeCon and many others. Nick believes that a salesperson should have an incredible level of technical knowledge, not to rely on technical teams to do their selling for them. To fix a problem, you must first understand it. He speaks the same language with any CISO or cybersecurity specialist and requires the same from his team. What Nick enjoys most in his job is the investigation of evildoers that cause a problem to the world and bringing them to justice in close cooperation with international law enforcement.
Meet our team
Shafique Dawood
Head of Sales and Business Development
APAC
Camill Cebulla
Sales Director
Europe
Ashraf Koheil
Regional Sales Director
Middle East
Tim Bobak
Sales Director
UK & MEA
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